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ft SATURDAY,. OCTOBER 3x, igoS. THX DIS1.EIT fAEMlB ft I
1 "Leading Implement Dealers," Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming. Main Offices Salt Lake, Utah I
Consoifdaiefl UJap & Hine Go.
j Branches: Ogden, Logan, Price Utah Jos. F. Smith, President Mclvin D. Wells, Scc.-Treas. GEO. T ODELL 'Gen Mer. I
i Branches: Idaho Falls, Montpelier Idaho W. S. McComick, Vice-Prest. Grant Hampton, Asst. Sec-Trcas. ' ' H
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by Professor Zavitz were even more
(striking than in the case of grains.
Mangels grown from large seed, for
instance, yielded thirty-one tons per
acre; from medium seed twenty-seven
tons per acre, and from small
seed eighteen and one-half tons per
acre. Large raps seed produced thir-
teen tons per acre, while medium seed
.produced nine tons and small seed
j three tons per acre. Even in the case
of potatoes the average for the result
' of planting large potatoes during six
yeans was a yield of 338 bushels per
acre, while medium sized potatoes
produced 274 bushels and small pota
toes a yield of 201 bushels per acre.
I ...
In the results given in the outset,
j showing the effect of selecting large,
medium and small grain from cereals,
i
each year's selection was made from
S common stock of isccd oats. In other
words, the plump grain was not sc-
i lectcd from the plump crop the prc-
1 vious year and the medium from the
; medium. This was done, however, in
another series of experiments report-
; ed by Professor Zavitz. An cxperi-
I ment was carried on during twelve
years in which large seed oats were
j selected from the product of large
j seed the previous year and small seed
1 from the product of small seed pre-
viously sown. An equal numiber of
grains were weighed out for each
1 plot, thereby eliminating the error
1 that commonly creeps into experi-
I ments of this kind. At the end of
) twelve years the heavy grain produced
J a yield of sixty-two and one-half
I bushels per acre, while the light seed
I produced thirty-nine bushels per acre.
j
We arc selling a great many Stew
art Ranges and Heaters these days.
We hope these ads arc helping to turn
you attention our way.' We want to
touch the emotional side of you your
hoaTt so stronglythat you cannot and
will not be satisfied with any other
make of stoves.
The product of the heavy grain after
twelve years of constant selection
weighed thirty-four and one-half
pounds per bushel and the light grain
twenty-five pounds per bushel.
Professor Zavitz's conclusion, from
the results obtained by him during
fourteen years of experimentation,
was that large seeds gave a greater
yield than an equal number of small
seeds in every caisc in the twelve dif
ferent classes of farm crops.
We claim that these are the most
comprehensive experiments that have
ever been conducted for the purpose
of settling this much discussed ques
tion, and the results as give ..crtainly
show strongly in favor of t :c large,
heavy seed.
In these days when oats arc selling
in some markets as high as fifty cents
a bushel and land on which they have
been produced running in value from
$100 up to $150 per acre, it would
seem as though it were unnecessary
to advance any argument in favor of
thoroughly fanning out all the light
grain so as to savc only the heavy
grain for sowing. The cost of the
fanning mill would be covered not
only once, but several times over, on
a single crop on the average quarter
or half section farm.
Invite your neighbor to subscribe
for the "Deseret Farmer." Every
farmer ought to take his home farm
paper. It contains valuable matter,
week by week, especially adapted to
farming In thU region, which no oth
er farxn paper can give.
See what the "Deseret Farmer"
' offers for juat a little work, page 14.
We know you will be satisfiod and
contented with a Stewart; you can't
help but be. Our prices arc right,
our terms arc right, and what's more
to the point, the stove itself puts up
a far stronger excellency proving talk
than wc can make. Do us the kind
ness to personally inspect a Stewart.
I HORTICULTURE I I
This Department is Edited by Prof.
R. S. Northrop, A. C. U.
IN CATALPA PLANTATIONS.
Greater iskill and attention to de
tails arc required to grow catalpa
profitably than perhaps any other
tree. In the first place, the seed of
young trees must all be of the par
ticular species known as hardly catal
pa; the others, for production of
wood, arc not worth the planting.
The isoil must be rich and rather
moist, and must not contain too
.much alkali. Whenever the young
trees are making a low branching
growth so that they will be unsuitcd
for posts or poles they should be
"cut back," that is, cut off close to
the ground, when two or three years
old, just as if they were large enough
for market. Several; sprouts imme
diately spring up from each stump
and grow vigorously, and the com
petition for sunlight (stimulates height
growth and encourages natural prun
ing. This enables the tree to form a
straightcr stem with fewer branches.
At the end of the season the sprout
is nearly as tall as the three-year-old
tree would have been.
The many disappointments in grow
ing catalpa arc attributable to unfav
orable site and stock of an inferior
kind of catalpa. Crooked, limby
trees also often result when the trees
are not cut back, and where the limbs,
after attaining some size, are broken
off, decay enters and the heart rot so H
injurious to the tree begins. H
When trees arc cut back the planta- H
lion .must be sprouted, cither by re- H
moving the undesirable sprouts while H
green, or by cutting them out the fol- H
lowing winter with' an ax. All but the H
strongest one or two sprouts are re- H
moved. H
After ten years under best condi- H
tions the first crop has gained the H
size at which it can be cut most pro-
fitaibly for posts. Each tree should H
then produce one first-class .post, H
worth 12 or 14 cents, one second- H
class post worth 8 cents, and two or H
three -stays worth 3 cents each. From H
the small and crooked! limbs consid- H
crablc firewood is secured, which, in H
a, large plantation is sawed irto stove H
lengths and piled convenient for -ship- H
'ping at the same time that the posts H
arc sawed. After all material of value H
has been removed, men go through H
the plantation with long poles which H
are pushed ahead of them under the
brush. When a considerable amount H
has been collected the pole is tilted
upright, forming a neat pile of brush, H
for burning. The plantation is thus
kept free from obstructions. A vig- H
orous root -system has now developed, -H
and future crops are grown from H
sprouts in 8 years. H
In catalpa, hcartwood forms early. H
This is in marked contrast with -sonic H
woods, black walnut for instance, H
which contains but little hc'artv.ood H
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